{"product_id":"brucke-1","title":"Brücke","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the German city of Dresden on June 7, 1905, the foundation of the \u003cstrong\u003eDie Brücke\u003c\/strong\u003e artists' group (1905-1913) is widely regarded as the birth of Expressionism. Led by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, the group sought to reject the limits of academia and, as their name suggested, \u003cstrong\u003eto bridge the path to an artistic future\u003c\/strong\u003e. Their manifesto, printed with woodblock, insisted on absolute freedom from convention in their work as well as their lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This new, liberated art incorporated portraits, landscapes, and city scenes, but\u003cstrong\u003e substituted an objective rendering of reality with an expression of interior geography\u003c\/strong\u003e. In paintings, as well as their favored wood and linocut prints, the artists of Die Brücke would fill pictorial space with \u003cstrong\u003ejagged lines, crude forms, and clashing colors\u003c\/strong\u003e, all to express their subjective experience of the world. Like the Fauves, the artists took stylistic lead from non-Western traditions of Oceanic and African arts, while also reviving the print and painting techniques of Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach the Elder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This richly illustrated book introduces this \u003cstrong\u003eessential expressionist movement\u003c\/strong\u003e. We examine Die Brücke's key works and protagonists; its varied, international inspirations; and its crucial influence on later 20th century art. Along the way, we find candid nudes, crowded street views, and blissful bathing idylls, each of them \u003cstrong\u003evivid with energy and intent on a new kind of art\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLorenz, Ulrike:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Ulrike Lorenz is Director of the Kunsthalle Mannheim and former director of Art Forum East German Gallery in Regensburg. She studied art history and archeology at the University of Leipzig and received her doctorate from the Bauhaus-University in Weimar.","brand":"Taschen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50545381835026,"sku":"9783836537001","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_427bac49-9b27-4a1d-995e-e7d578b9c952.jpg?v=1731546172","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/brucke-1","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}